Hatang Kayi language explained

Remontado Dumagat
Also Known As:Sinauna, Remontado Agta
Nativename:Hatang-Kayi
Map:Remontado Dumagat language map.png
Mapcaption:Area where the Sinauna language is spoken
States:Philippines
Region:Tanay, Montalban, and Antipolo in Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon
Date:2000
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Central Luzon
Iso3:agv
Glotto:remo1247
Glottorefname:Hatang Kayi

Remontado, also known in literature as Sinauna, Kabalat, Remontado Dumagat, and more commonly by the autonym Hatang-Kayi, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Tanay, Rizal, General Nakar, Quezon (including in Paimahuan, Limoutan[1]), Rodriguez, Rizal and Antipolo, in the Philippines. It is one of the Philippine Negrito languages. It is a moribund language.[2]

Terminology

The language is referred to by various terms in linguistic literature. The speakers refer to their language as ('this language') while Remontado is the most common term in English literature used to refer to both the community and their language. (meaning 'ancient' or 'old' in Tagalog) is a term used in some literature that originates after the language's discovery in the 1970s but has never been used by the speakers of the language themselves. Remontado Agta has also been used but this is also erroneous as speakers of this language are never referred to as Agta.

Classification

Reid (2010) classifies the language as a Central Luzon language.

Distribution

The Remontado Dumagat were traditionally found in the mountains around the boundary between Sampaloc district in Tanay, Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon (Lobel 2013:72-73).[3]

Today, Remontado is spoken in the following five villages, where it is only spoken by elderly people over the age of 50 (Lobel & Surbano 2019).[4] Two of the villages are in Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province, and three of the villages are in Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province.

Notes and References

  1. Reid . Lawrence A. . 1994 . Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 33 . 1 . 37–72 . 10.2307/3623000 . 3623000 . free . 10125/32986.
  2. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/agv<nowiki/>{{Subscription required}}
  3. Lobel . Jason William . Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction . 2013 . PhD . University of Hawaii at Manoa . 10125/101972 . free.
  4. Lobel . Jason William . Surbano . Orlando Vertudez . 2019 . Notes from the Field: Remontado (Hatang Kayi): A Moribund Language of the Philippines . Language Documentation and Conservation . 13 . 1–34 . free . 10125/24796.